THE CLASSICAL REVIEW Volume 68 - Issue 02 - October 2018
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CLASSICAL GREEK SYNTAX – (D.) Goldstein Classical Greek Syntax. Wackernagel's Law in Herodotus. (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics 16.) Pp. xvi + 331, figs. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Cased, €115, US$149. ISBN: 978-90-04-24297-5.1 Robert Crellin The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 303 – 305 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1800094X Published Online on 28 May 2018
PERSPECTIVES ON ANCIENT ETHICS – (C.) Bobonich (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics. Pp. xii + 395. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Paper, £23.99, US$29.99 (Cased, £79.99, US$99.99). ISBN: 978-1-107-65231-6 (978-1-107-05391-5 hbk). Noell Birondo The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 305 – 308 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1800118X Published Online on 18 July 2018
HOMER AND VIRGIL COMPARED – (S.) Ridd Communication, Love, and Death in Homer and Virgil. An Introduction. (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture 54.) Pp. x + 258. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Paper, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8061-5729-0. Naoko Yamagata The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 308 – 310 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000707 Published Online on 17 May 2018
THE COMPARISON OF HOMER AND VIRGIL – (P.) Weiß Homer und Vergil im Vergleich. Ein Paradigma antiker Literaturkritik und seine Ästhetik. (Classica Monacensia 52.) Pp. 392. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2017. Paper, €88. ISBN: 978-3-8233-8110-5. Damien P. Nelis The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 310 – 312 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000446 Published Online on 10 April 2018
THE GODS IN HOMER – (G.) Pironti, (C.) Bonnet (edd.) Les dieux d'Homère. Polythéisme et poésie en Grèce ancienne. (Kernos Supplément 31.) Pp. 257, ills. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2017. Paper, €25. ISBN: 978-2-87562-130-6. Margalit Finkelberg The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 312 – 315 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001531 Published Online on 29 June 2018
THE BATTLE OF THE FROGS AND MICE IN ENGLISH – (J.) Christensen, (E.) Robinson (edd., trans.) The Homeric Battle of the Frogs and Mice. Pp. xiv + 198. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Cased. ISBN: 978-1-3500-3594-2. Matt Hosty The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 315 – 317 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1800135X Published Online on 28 June 2018
THE GREEK EPIC CYCLE – (B.) Sammons Device and Composition in the Greek Epic Cycle. Pp. viii + 263. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £55, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-061484-3. G.A. Gazis The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 317 – 319 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001658 Published Online on 18 July 2018
ASPECTS OF LOVE IN ARCHAIC GREEK LITERATURE – (S.) Caciagli (ed.) Eros e genere in Grecia arcaica. (Eikasmos. Studi 28.) Pp. x + 228, map. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2017. Paper, €26. ISBN: 978-88-555-3379-9. Felix J. Meister The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 319 – 322 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000549 Published Online on 23 April 2018
OBSERVATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF HIPPONAX – (L.) Bettarini Lingua e testo di Ipponatte. (Syncrisis 3.) Pp. 154. Pisa and Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2017. Paper, €52. ISBN: 978-88-6227-938-3. Alexander Dale The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 322 – 324 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001075 Published Online on 18 July 2018
THOUGHTS ON EPINICIAN POETRY – (D.) Fearn Pindar's Eyes. Visual and Material Culture in Epinician Poetry. Pp. x + 318. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £70, US$99. ISBN: 978-0-19-874637-9. Chris Eckerman The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 324 – 326 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001269 Published Online on 18 June 2018
HERACLITUS AND THALES – (A.) Finkelberg Heraclitus and Thales’ Conceptual Scheme: a Historical Study. (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 23.) Pp. xii + 415. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Cased, €135, US$145. ISBN: 978-90-04-33799-2. Keith Begley The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 327 – 328 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000380 Published Online on 10 April 2018
THEAGENES: AN EARLY GREEK SCHOLAR – (F.) Biondi Teagene di Reggio rapsodo e interprete di Omero. (Syncrisis 2.) Pp. 144. Pisa and Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2015. Paper, €48. ISBN: 978-88-6227-716-7. Anna Novokhatko The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 329 – 331 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000367 Published Online on 23 April 2018
DISCOVERIES FROM FRAGMENTS – (V.) Piano Il Papiro di Derveni tra religione e filosofia. (Studi e Testi per il Corpus dei Papiri Filosofici Greci e Latini 18.) Pp. xxiv + 406, ills, colour pls. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2016. Paper, €50. ISBN: 978-88-222-6477-0. Stamatios Bussès The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 331 – 333 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000963 Published Online on 28 May 2018
GREEK TRAGEDY: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY – (E.) Stewart Greek Tragedy on the Move. The Birth of a Panhellenic Art Form c. 500–300 bc. Pp. xviii + 261. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £65, US$95. ISBN: 978-0-19-874726-0. Eric Csapo The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 333 – 335 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000422 Published Online on 15 April 2018
REINTRODUCING LIBATION BEARERS – (C.W.) Marshall Aeschylus: Libation Bearers. Pp. xii + 181. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Paper, £16.99, US$22.95 (Cased, £50, US$68). ISBN: 978-1-4742-5506-6 (978-1-4742-5507-3 hbk). Allannah Karas The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 335 – 337 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000902 Published Online on 1 June 2018
STUDIES ON THE RECEPTION OF AESCHYLUS – (R.F.) Kennedy (ed.) Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus. (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 11.) Pp. xx + 634, b/w & colour ills. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €193, US$222. ISBN: 978-90-04-24932-5. Silvio Bär The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 337 – 340 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000938 Published Online on 24 May 2018
VERSIONS OF EURIPIDES’ BACCHAE – (S.) Perris The Gentle, Jealous God. Reading Euripides’ Bacchae in English. Pp. xii + 237. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Cased, £85. ISBN: 978-1-4725-1353-3. Chris Murray The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 340 – 342 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000227 Published Online on 27 March 2018
EMPEDOCLES THE LOVE POET – (X.) Gheerbrant Empédocle, une poétique philosophique. (Kaïnon, Anthropologie de la pensée ancienne 6.) Pp. 931. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2017. Paper, €98 (Cased, €135). ISBN: 978-2-406-05713-0 (978-2-406-05714-7 hbk). Simon Trépanier The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 342 – 344 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001488 Published Online on 2 July 2018
ARISTOPHANES AND HIS RIVALS – (M.) Telò Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy. Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon. Pp. xiv + 237. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Cased, £38.50, US$55. ISBN: 978-0-226-30969-9. Ian Ruffell The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 344 – 347 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000823 Published Online on 18 June 2018
ORACLES AND NARRATIVES – (J.) Kindt Revisiting Delphi. Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece. Pp. xvi + 215, ill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £64.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-15157-4. Luke Gorton The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 347 – 349 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000574 Published Online on 7 May 2018
AN OVERVIEW OF PERSPECTIVES ON THUCYDIDES – (R.K.) Balot, (S.) Forsdyke, (E.) Foster (edd.) The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides. Pp. xxvi + 773, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £112.50, US$150. ISBN: 978-0-19-934038-5. Neville Morley The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 349 – 351 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000318 Published Online on 27 March 2018
A NEW EDITION OF A HIPPOCRATIC TEXT – (J.) Jouanna (ed., trans.) Hippocrate. Tome IV, 1re partie: Épidémies I et III. Avec la collaboration de Anargyros Anastassiou et Alessia Guardasole. (Collection des Universités de France publiée sous le patronage de l'Association Guillaume Budé 527.) Pp. ccxxv + 492. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2016. Paper, €75. ISBN: 978-2-251-00611-6. Caroline Petit The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 352 – 353 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001622 Published Online on 8 August 2018
READINGS OF PLATO – (D.) Nails, (H.) Tarrant (edd.) Second Sailing: Alternative Perspectives on Plato. In Collaboration with Mika Kajava and Eero Salmenkivi. (Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 132.) Pp. xii + 366, ills. Helsinki: The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, 2015. Cased, €30. ISBN: 978-951-653-409-4. Eli Diamond The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 354 – 356 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001087 Published Online on 28 June 2018
CURRENT VIEWS ON PLATO'S SYMPOSIUM – (P.) Destrée, (Z.) Giannopoulou (edd.) Plato's Symposium. A Critical Guide. Pp. x + 268. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £64.99, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-11005-2. Anthony Hooper The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 356 – 359 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001221 Published Online on 28 June 2018
PLATO AND THE ROLE OF ARGUMENT – (T.) Irani Plato on the Value of Philosophy. The Art of Argument in the Gorgias and Phaedrus. Pp. xiv + 217. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £64.99, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-18198-4. Andrew Beer The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 359 – 361 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000276 Published Online on 2 April 2018
PLATO'S PHILEBUS AND THE GOOD – (J.V.) Garner The Emerging Good in Plato's Philebus. Pp. xii + 180. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2017. Paper, US$34.95 (Cased, US$99.95). ISBN: 978-0-8101-3558-1 (978-0-8101-3559-8 hbk). Satoshi Ogihara The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 361 – 363 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000689 Published Online on 16 May 2018
STUDIES ON THE TEXT OF PLATO'S TIMAEUS AND CRITIAS – (G.) Jonkers The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias. (Mnemosyne Supplements 400.) Pp. xviii + 548. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Cased, €180, US$202. ISBN: 978-90-04-32591-3. Colin Guthrie King The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 363 – 365 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000239 Published Online on 27 March 2018
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ATHENIANS IN ITALIAN AND IN ENGLISH – (P.J.) Rhodes (ed., trans.) Aristotele: Costituzione degli ateniesi. Translated by A. Zambrini and T. Gargiulo. Pp. lii + 402. Rome / Milan: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla / Arnoldo Mondadori, 2016. Cased, €35. ISBN: 978-88-04-67169-5. – (P.J.) Rhodes (ed., trans.) The Athenian Constitution Written in the School of Aristotle. Pp. xii + 441, maps. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017. Paper, £19.99 (Cased, £75). ISBN: 978-1-78694-837-3 (978-1-78694-070-4 hbk). Alberto Esu The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 366 – 369 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000410 Published Online on 10 April 2018
ARISTOTLE AND HIS INFLUENCE – (A.) Falcon Aristotelismo. (Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi. Mappe 65.) Pp. x + 150. Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 2017. Paper, €18. ISBN: 978-88-06-23112-5. Laura M. Castelli The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 369 – 371 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001178 Published Online on 13 September 2018
INTUITION AND CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHERS – (P.T.) Struck Divination and Human Nature. A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity. Pp. xii + 288, figs. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Cased, £34.95, US$45. ISBN: 978-0-691-16939-2. Jan Haywood The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 372 – 374 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000598 Published Online on 7 May 2018
EPICURUS ON THE SELF – (A.) Németh Epicurus on the Self. Pp. xx + 205. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Cased, £105. ISBN: 978-1-138-63385-8. Solmeng-Jonas Hirschi The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 374 – 376 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001099 Published Online on 13 September 2018
SENTENTIOUS TEXTS ON PAPYRI – Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini (CPF). Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. Parte II.3: Gnomica. Pp. 443. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2017. Paper, €120. ISBN: 978-88-222-6539-5. Isabella Bonati The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 376 – 379 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001191 Published Online on 25 June 2018
A GREEK LIFE OF AUGUSTUS – (M.) Toher (ed., trans.) Nicolaus of Damascus: The Life of Augustus and The Autobiography. Edited with Introduction, Translations and Historical Commentary. Pp. xii + 488. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £99.99, US$160. ISBN: 978-1-107-07561-0. Ann Ellis Hanson The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 379 – 381 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000847 Published Online on 31 May 2018
THE MIXTURE OF GENRES IN LUCIAN – (É.) Marquis, (A.) Billault (edd.) Mixis. Le mélange des genres chez Lucien de Samosate. Pp. iv + 293. Paris: Éditions Demopolis, 2017. Paper, €29.50. ISBN: 978-2-35457-123-8. Morena Deriu The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 381 – 384 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001245 Published Online on 18 June 2018
A PARALITERARY NOVEL – (A.) Tagliabue Xenophon's Ephesiaca. A Paraliterary Love-Story from the Ancient World. (Ancient Narrative Supplementum 22.) Pp. viii + 243. Groningen: Barkhuis and Groningen University Library, 2017. Cased, €90. ISBN: 978-9-49244412-7. Karen Ní Mheallaigh The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 384 – 386 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000811 Published Online on 18 June 2018
A NEW EDITION OF PHILOSTRATUS AND POLEMON – (R.S.) Stefec (ed.) Flavii Philostrati Vitas Sophistarum. Ad quas accedunt Polemonis Laodicensis declamationes quae exstant duae. (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.) Pp. xiv + 177. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £45. ISBN: 978-0-19-872370-7. Graeme Miles The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 387 – 388 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000203 Published Online on 4 April 2018
A NEW EDITION OF THE REFUTATION – (M.D.) Litwa (ed., trans.) Refutation of All Heresies. (Writings from the Greco-Roman World 40.) Pp. lx + 824. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2016. Paper, US$99.95 (Cased, US$119.95). ISBN: 978-0-88414-085-6 (978-0-88414-087-0 hbk). Jonathon Lookadoo The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 388 – 390 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000215 Published Online on 13 June 2018
NARRATIVE FEATURES IN NONNUS – (C.) Geisz A Study of the Narrator in Nonnus of Panopolis’ Dionysiaca. Storytelling in Late Antique Epic. (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology 25.) Pp. x + 282, fig. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €110, US$127. ISBN: 978-90-04-35533-0. Berenice Verhelst The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 390 – 392 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001208 Published Online on 18 June 2018
CONSTELLATION MYTHS IN ENGLISH – (R.) Hard (trans.) Eratosthenes and Hyginus: Constellation Myths. With Aratus's Phaenomena. Pp. xlvi + 210, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Paper, £8.99, US$15.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-871698-3. James Evans The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 393 – 395 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001294 Published Online on 3 July 2018
NEW LITERARY AND SUB-LITERARY TEXTS FROM OXYRHYNCHUS – (J.H.) Brusuelas, (C.) Meccariello (edd., trans.) The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Volume LXXXI. (Graeco-Roman Memoirs 102.) Pp. xii + 167, pls. London: The Egypt Exploration Society, 2016. Cased, £85. ISBN: 978-0-85698-229-3. Patrick James The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 395 – 398 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000604 Published Online on 18 June 2018
CHARACTERISTICS OF ORATIO OBLIQUA – (P.) Poccetti (ed.) Oratio obliqua. Strategies of Reported Speech in Ancient Languages. (Ricerche sulle Lingue di Frammentaria Attestazione 9.) Pp. 168. Pisa and Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2017. Paper, €54. ISBN: 978-88-6227-889-8. Hilla Halla-Aho The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 398 – 400 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001543 Published Online on 4 July 2018
READINGS OF LATIN POETRY – (A.J.) Woodman, (J.) Wisse (edd.) Word and Context in Latin Poetry. Studies in Memory of David West. (Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement 40.) Pp. xvi + 180. Cambridge: The Cambridge Philological Society, 2017. Cased, £45. ISBN: 978-0-9568381-5-5. Andrew S. Becker The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 400 – 402 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000744 Published Online on 4 June 2018
A NEW COMMENTARY ON AENEID 2 – (S.) Casali (ed., trans.) Virgilio, Eneide 2. (Syllabus 1.) Pp. 390. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2017. Paper, €25. ISBN: 978-88-7642-572-1. Scott Goins The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 403 – 404 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000781 Published Online on 31 May 2018
AMOR, FUROR AND THE MUSE IN THE AENEID – (L.) Bocciolini Palagi La musa e la furia. Interpretazione del secondo proemio dell’Eneide. (Testi e Manuali per l'Insegnamento Universitario del Latino 135.) Pp. 135, ills. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2016. Paper, €18. ISBN: 978-88-555-3368-3. Elena Giusti The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 405 – 406 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000884 Published Online on 1 June 2018
A NEW COMMENTARY ON HORACE'S ‘LITTLE’ BOOK OF ODES – (S.) Harrison (ed.) Horace: Odes Book II. Pp. x + 267. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Paper, £20.99, US$34.99 (Cased, £59.99, US$99.99). ISBN: 978-1-107-60090-4 (978-1-107-01291-2 hbk). Patricia J. Johnson The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 406 – 408 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000677 Published Online on 16 May 2018
CANIDIA CONTEXTUALISED – (M.T.) Paule Canidia, Rome's First Witch. Pp. x + 218, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Cased, £85. ISBN: 978-1-350-00389-7. Leonardo Costantini The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 409 – 410 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000409 Published Online on 10 April 2018
INSCRIPTIONS AND ROMAN ELEGY – (A.) Bettenworth ‘Hoc satis in titulo …’ Studien zu den Inschriften in der römischen Elegie. (Orbis Antiquus 44.) Pp. vi + 470. Münster: Aschendorff, 2016. Paper, €63. ISBN: 978-3-402-14446-6. T.E. Franklinos The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 411 – 413 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001415 Published Online on 28 June 2018
SPEECHLESS – (B.A.) Natoli Silenced Voices. The Poetics of Speech in Ovid. Pp. x + 227, figs. Madison, WI and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. Cased, US$69.95. ISBN: 978-0-299-31210-7. Tom Geue The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 413 – 415 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000720 Published Online on 21 May 2018
APOTHEOSIS AND OVID'S METAMORPHOSES – (P.) Martínez Astorino La apoteosis en las Metamorfosis de Ovidio. Diseño estructural, mitologización y ‘lectura’ en la representación de apoteosis y sus contextos. Pp. xvi + 394. Bahía Blanca: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional del Sur, 2017. Paper. ISBN: 978-987-655-080-2. Despina Keramida The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 415 – 417 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000914 Published Online on 1 June 2018
ITALIAN MYTHS IN OVID – (L.) Aresi Nel giardino di Pomona. Le Metamorfosi di Ovidio e l'invenzione di una mitologia in terra d'Italia. (Bibliothek der Klassischen Altertumswissenschaften 155.) Pp. viii + 354. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. Cased, €48. ISBN: 978-3-8253-6779-4. Stella Alekou The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 417 – 419 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000719 Published Online on 21 May 2018
INTERTEXTUALITY AND THE CIRIS – (B.) Kayachev Allusion and Allegory. Studies in the Ciris. (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 346.) Pp. x + 238. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. Cased, £72.99, €79.95, US$112. ISBN: 978-3-11-044681-4. George C. Paraskeviotis The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 420 – 421 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000951 Published Online on 24 May 2018
SENECA'S THYESTES REVISITED – (A.J.) Boyle (ed., trans.) Seneca: Thyestes. Pp. cxlvi + 561. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £120, US$150. ISBN: 978-0-19-874472-6. Erica Bexley The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 422 – 424 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000306 Published Online on 7 May 2018
A NEW TEXT AND COMMENTARY ON STATIUS’ THEBAID 2 – (K.) Gervais (ed., trans.) Statius, Thebaid 2. Pp. liv + 374. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £100, US$155. ISBN: 978-0-19-874470-2. Dalida Agri The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 424 – 426 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1800029X Published Online on 27 March 2018
A NEW COMMENTARY ON SILIUS ITALICUS – (N.W.) Bernstein (ed., trans.) Silius Italicus, Punica 2. Pp. liv + 318. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £80, US$125. ISBN: 978-0-19-874786-4. Raymond Marks The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 426 – 428 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000859 Published Online on 24 May 2018
CANNAE IN POETRY AND COMMENTARY – (R.J.) Littlewood (ed., trans.) A Commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 10. Pp. lxxx + 265, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £75, US$120. ISBN: 978-0-19-871381-4. Ioannis Ziogas The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 428 – 430 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000860 Published Online on 31 May 2018
CHARACTERISATIONS IN THE GOLDEN ASS – (S.) Harrison (ed.) Characterisation in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. Nine studies. Pp. xviii + 190. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. Cased, £41.99. ISBN: 978-1-4438-7533-2. Leonardo Costantini The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 430 – 432 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000756 Published Online on 15 May 2018
LATE-ANTIQUE LATIN POETRY AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE – (S.) McGill, (J.) Pucci (edd.) Classics Renewed. Reception and Innovation in the Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity. (Bibliothek der Klassischen Altertumswissenschaften 152.) Pp. 432. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. Cased, €48. ISBN: 978-3-8253-6448-9. Jesús Hernández Lobato The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 433 – 435 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1800063X Published Online on 22 May 2018
PRUDENTIUS WITHIN LATE ANTIQUITY – (C.) O'Hogan Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity. Pp. viii + 197. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £60, US$100. ISBN: 978-0-19-874922-6. Fabio Nolfo The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 435 – 437 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001427 Published Online on 28 June 2018
PRUDENTIUS, A ROMAN AND/OR SPANISH POET – (P.) Hershkowitz Prudentius, Spain, and Late Antique Christianity. Poetry, Visual Culture, and the Cult of Martyrs. Pp. xiv + 254, ills, map. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-14960-1. Marc Mastrangelo The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 438 – 440 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001634 Published Online on 23 July 2018
A CRITICAL STUDY OF PRUDENTIUS’ CONTRA ORATIONEM SYMMACHI – (C.) Gnilka Prudentius Contra orationem Symmachi. Eine kritische Revue. Pp. viii + 578, colour pls. Münster: Aschendorff, 2017. Cased, €79. ISBN: 978-3-402-13295-1. Marco Onorato The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 440 – 442 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001476 Published Online on 28 June 2018
A NEW EDITION OF AND COMMENTARY ON JEROME'S VITA MALCHI – (C.) Gray Jerome, Vita Malchi. Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary. Pp. xviii + 365, map. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Cased, £70, US$115. ISBN: 978-0-19-872372-1. Andrew Cain The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 442 – 444 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000185 Published Online on 15 April 2018
THE ANCIENT LIFE OF MARTIN – (P.) Burton (ed., trans.) Sulpicius Severus’ Vita Martini. Pp. xvi + 298, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £120, US$155. ISBN: 978-0-19-967622-4. Christa Gray The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 444 – 446 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000379 Published Online on 15 April 2018
A NEW TEXT OF POMPEIUS’ COMMENTUM – (A.) Zago (ed., trans.) Pompeii Commentum in Artis Donati partem tertiam. Tomo I: Introduzione, testo critico e traduzione. Tomo II: Note di commento, appendice e indici. (Collectanea Grammatica Latina 15.1–2.) Pp. cl + 420. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2017. Paper, €136. ISBN: vol. 1: 978-3-615-00430-4, vol. 2: 978-3-615-00431-1, set: 978-3-615-00429-8. Mariarosaria Pugliarello The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 446 – 448 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001440 Published Online on 23 July 2018
LATIN BIBLICAL EPICS AND ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND – (P.) McBrine Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England. Divina in Laude Voluntas. Pp. xii + 384. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Cased, C$85. ISBN: 978-0-8020-9853-5. Tyler Flatt The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 448 – 450 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000872 Published Online on 31 May 2018
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ‘PHOENICIANS’ – (M.) Woolmer A Short History of the Phoenicians. Pp. xxii + 233, ills, maps. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2017. Paper, £10.99, US$15.95 (Cased, £64, US$99). ISBN: 978-1-78076-618-8 (978-1-78076-617-1 hbk). Peter van Dommelen The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 451 – 452 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001154 Published Online on 13 September 2018
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD – (A.) Zuiderhoek The Ancient City. Pp. xiv + 225, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Paper, £18.99, US$29.99 (Cased, £59.99, US$99.99). ISBN: 978-0-521-16601-0 (978-0-521-19835-6 hbk). Charles Gates The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 453 – 455 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1800046X Published Online on 15 April 2018
CITIZENSHIP IN ANTIQUITY – (L.) Cecchet, (A.) Busetto (edd.) Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World. Aspects of Citizenship from the Archaic Period to ad 212. (Mnemosyne Supplements 407.) Pp. xii + 341, colour ills, colour map. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Cased, €115, US$133. ISBN: 978-90-04-34668-0. Myles Lavan The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 455 – 458 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001348 Published Online on 20 July 2018
ARISTOCRACY IN ANTIQUITY? – (N.) Fisher, (H.) Van Wees (edd.) ‘Aristocracy’ in Antiquity. Redefining Greek and Roman Elites. Pp. viii + 390, fig., ills, map. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2015. Cased, £75. ISBN: 978-1-910589-01-4. Carlos Villafane The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 458 – 460 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000616 Published Online on 24 May 2018
ECONOMY, RESOURCES, POWER AND INEQUALITY IN ANTIQUITY – (S.) von Reden (ed.) Economie et inégalité. Ressources, échanges et pouvoir dans l'Antiquité classique. Huit exposés suivis de discussions. (Entretiens sur l'Antiquité Classique 63.) Pp. x + 404, colour pls. Geneva: Fondation Hardt, 2017. Cased, CHF75. ISBN: 978-2-600-00763-4. Dario Calomino The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 460 – 463 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000793 Published Online on 31 May 2018
TYPES OF VIOLENCE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD – (W.) Riess, †(G.G.) Fagan (edd.) The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World. Pp. vi + 416, ills. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Cased, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-472-11982-0. Kevin Muse The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 463 – 466 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001506 Published Online on 29 June 2018
WOMEN, RITUAL AND COMPETENCE – (M.) Dillon, (E.) Eidinow, (L.) Maurizio (edd.) Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean. Pp. xiv + 247, ills, maps. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Cased, £115, US$149.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-7890-0. Rebecca Flemming The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 466 – 468 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001129 Published Online on 23 July 2018
THE POLITICS OF CLASSICAL GREEK OLIGARCHY – (M.) Simonton Classical Greek Oligarchy. A Political History. Pp. xviii + 355, map. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. Cased, £37.95, US$45. ISBN: 978-0-691-17497-6. Daniel B. Unruh The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 468 – 470 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001324 Published Online on 28 June 2018
PERSPECTIVES ON THE PERSIAN INVASION – (R.) Garland Athens Burning. The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica. Pp. xiv + 170, ills, maps. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. Paper, US$19.95 (Cased, US$50). ISBN: 978-1-4214-2196-4 (978-1-4214-2195-7 hbk). C. Jacob Butera The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 470 – 472 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000653 Published Online on 15 May 2018
CIMON AND ATHENIAN POLITICS – (M.) Zaccarini The Lame Hegemony. Cimon of Athens and the Failure of Panhellenism, ca. 478–450 bc. (Storia Antica 5.) Pp. 400, map. Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2017. Paper, €35. ISBN: 978-88-6923-241-1. Thomas Figueira The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 473 – 475 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000628 Published Online on 21 May 2018
PORTRAITS OF GREEK GENERALS – (J.) Roisman The Classical Art of Command. Eight Greek Generals Who Shaped the History of Warfare. Pp. xviii + 392, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £26.49, US$35. ISBN: 978-0-19-998582-1. Sonya Nevin The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 475 – 477 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001142 Published Online on 13 September 2018
GREEK BATTLE TACTICS – (R.) Konijnendijk Classical Greek Tactics. A Cultural History. (Mnemosyne Supplements 409.) Pp. viii + 261. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €104, US$120. ISBN: 978-90-04-35536-1. Fernando Echeverría The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 477 – 479 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001580 Published Online on 29 June 2018
THE EXPERIENCE OF POVERTY IN ATHENS – (C.) Taylor Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being. Experiencing Penia in Democratic Athens. Pp. xvi + 309, figs, ills, map. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £75, US$105. ISBN: 978-0-19-878693-1. David Tandy The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 479 – 481 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001555 Published Online on 13 September 2018
FORMAL AND INFORMAL CONTROL IN ATHENS – (A.) Lanni Law and Order in Ancient Athens. Pp. xii + 226. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £80, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-0-521-19880-6. Kaja Harter-Uibopuu The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 481 – 483 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000835 Published Online on 4 June 2018
THE ROLE OF CHARACTER IN ATHENIAN COURTS – (V.) Adamidis Character Evidence in the Courts of Classical Athens. Rhetoric, Relevance and the Rule of Law. Pp. viii + 235. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Cased, £105, US$149.95. ISBN: 978-1-472-48369-0. Edward M. Harris The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 484 – 485 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000641 Published Online on 15 May 2018
GREEK HOMOSEXUALITY 40 YEARS ON – (K.J.) Dover Greek Homosexuality. With Forewords by Stephen Halliwell, Mark Masterson and James Robson. Pp. xxviii + 246, pls. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Paper, £24.99. ISBN: 978-1-4742-5715-2. Irene Salvo The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 486 – 487 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001105 Published Online on 18 June 2018
A HISTORY OF ELEA – (G.) Bourke Elis. Internal Politics and External Policy in Ancient Greece. Pp. xii + 247, ills, maps. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Cased, £105, US$140. ISBN: 978-0-415-74957-2. Matteo Barbato The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 488 – 489 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001464 Published Online on 28 June 2018
THE HISTORY OF AMBRACIA – (U.) Fantasia Ambracia dai Cipselidi ad Augusto. Contributo alla storia della Grecia nord-occidentale fino alla prima età imperiale. (Diabaseis 7.) Pp. xviii + 276, maps. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2017. Paper, €24. ISBN: 978-88-467-4680-1. Christy Constantakopoulou The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 490 – 491 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000537 Published Online on 23 April 2018
THE PHYSICIAN PHILISTION – (G.) Squillace Filistione di Locri. Un medico del IV secolo a. C. tra Grecia, Magna Grecia e Sicilia. (Spudasmata 170.) Pp. 266, maps. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2017. Paper, €48. ISBN: 978-3-487-15579-1. Filippo Forcignanò The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 491 – 494 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000513 Published Online on 23 April 2018
STUDIES OF PAIN – (D.) King Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture. Pp. xii + 291. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £65, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-881051-3. Dawn Lavalle Norman The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 494 – 496 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001567 Published Online on 23 July 2018
THE STATE OF ETRUSCOLOGY – (A.) Naso (ed.) Etruscology. In 2 volumes. Pp. xxiv + 1844, b/w & colour ills, maps. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. Cased, £320, US$413.99, €359.95. ISBN: 978-1-934078-48-8. Christopher Smith The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 496 – 498 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001361 Published Online on 28 June 2018
GRANARIES ANCIENT AND MODERN – (B.) Marin, (C.) Virlouvet (edd.) Entrepôts et trafics annonaires en Méditerranée. Antiquité-Temps modernes. (Collection de l’École Française de Rome 522.) Pp. viii + 406, figs, ills, maps. Rome: École Française de Rome, 2016. Paper, €30. ISBN: 978-2-7283-1246-7. Federico De Romanis The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 499 – 501 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001312 Published Online on 28 June 2018
ROMAN LAW AND SOCIETY IN DIALOGUE – (P.J.) du Plessis, (C.) Ando, (K.) Tuori (edd.) The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society. Pp. xviii + 728. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £110, US$185. ISBN: 978-0-19-872868-9. Thomas A.J. McGinn The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 502 – 504 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001117 Published Online on 13 September 2018
THE ROLE OF FINANCES IN REPUBLICAN ROME – (J.) Tan Power and Public Finance at Rome, 264–49 bce. Pp. xxx + 214, fig. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £55, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-063957-0. David Hollander The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 504 – 506 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001130 Published Online on 29 June 2018
THE ROLE OF THE LARES IN ROME – (H.I.) Flower The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden. Religion at the Roman Street Corner. Pp. xvi + 394, ills, maps, colour pls. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. Cased, £37.95, US$45. ISBN: 978-0-691-17500-3. Candace R. MacIntosh The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 506 – 507 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000501 Published Online on 16 May 2018
ON THE POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF REPUBLICAN ROME – (H.) Mouritsen Politics in the Roman Republic. Pp. xii + 202. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Paper, £18.99, US$23.99 (Cased, £49.99, US$62.99). ISBN: 978-1-107-65133-3 (978-1-107-03188-3 hbk). Edwin Shaw The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 508 – 510 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000252 Published Online on 27 March 2018
BRUTUS THE ENIGMA – (K.) Tempest Brutus. The Noble Conspirator. Pp. xviii + 314, maps, pls. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017. Cased, £25, US$28.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-18009-1. C.H. Lange The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 510 – 512 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001336 Published Online on 28 June 2018
PEACE AS A POLITICAL ELEMENT IN ANCIENT ROME – (H.) Cornwell Pax and the Politics of Peace. Republic to Principate. Pp. xiv + 254, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £65, US$95. ISBN: 978-0-19-880563-2. Tom Stevenson The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 512 – 514 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000331 Published Online on 13 June 2018
VIRTUS AND THE ROMAN HISTORIOGRAPHERS – (C.) Balmaceda Virtus Romana. Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians. Pp. xiv + 297, ills. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Cased, US$45. ISBN: 978-1-46963512-5. Jyri Vaahtera The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 514 – 516 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001233 Published Online on 18 June 2018
BENEFACTIONS IN ITALY – (K.) Engfer Die private Munifizenz der römischen Oberschicht in Mittel- und Süditalien. Eine Untersuchung lateinischer Inschriften unter dem Aspekt der Fürsorge. (Philippika. Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 110.) Pp. viii + 337, CD. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017. Cased, €78. ISBN: 978-3-447-10808-9. John Nicols The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 516 – 518 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001646 Published Online on 23 July 2018
ISSUES OF MOBILITY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE – (E.) Lo Cascio, (L.E.) Tacoma (edd.) The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire. Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Rome, June 17–19, 2015). With the assistance of Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga. (Impact of Empire 22.) Pp. xii + 265, maps. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Cased, €114, US$125. ISBN: 978-90-04-33477-9. Rebecca Darley The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 518 – 521 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001518 Published Online on 29 June 2018
ROMAN MILITARY PRESENCE IN MOESIA – (C.) Whately Exercitus Moesiae. The Roman Army in Moesia from Augustus to Severus Alexander. (BAR International Series 2825.) Pp. viii + 124, maps. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2016. Paper, £26. ISBN: 978-1-4073-1475-4. Florian Matei-Popescu The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 521 – 523 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1800152X Published Online on 29 June 2018
THE ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE – (M.) Hebblewhite The Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, ad 235–395. Pp. xvi + 240, ills. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Cased, £115, US$149.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-5759-2. Philip Rance The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 523 – 526 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1800032X Published Online on 27 March 2018
JULIAN THE APOSTATE AT WAR – (H.C.) Teitler The Last Pagan Emperor. Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity. Pp. xxxiv + 271, ills, map. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017 (originally published as Julianus de Afvallige, 2009). Cased, £19.99, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-062650-1. Nicola Ernst The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 526 – 528 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000434 Published Online on 10 April 2018
PAPAL HISTORY WITHOUT THE PAPACY? – (J.) Moorhead The Popes and the Church of Rome in Late Antiquity. (Routledge Studies in Ancient History 8.) Pp. 321. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. Paper, £34.99, US$44.95 (Cased, £110, US$148). ISBN: 978-1-138-30577-9 (978-0-415-88365-8 hbk). Sihong Lin The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 528 – 530 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000926 Published Online on 1 June 2018
EXCAVATIONS AT KOMMOS ON CRETE – (M.C.) Shaw, (J.W.) Shaw (edd.) House X at Kommos. A Minoan Mansion by the Sea. Part 1: Architecture, Stratigraphy, and Selected Finds. An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete by the University of Toronto. (Prehistory Monographs 35.) Pp. xxvi + 150, figs, maps, b/w & colour pls. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2012. Cased, £53, US$80. ISBN: 978-1-931534-64-2. – (J.B.) Rutter House X at Kommos. A Minoan Mansion by the Sea. Part 2: The Pottery. An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete by the University of Toronto . Edited by Joseph W. Shaw and Maria C. Shaw. (Prehistory Monographs 57.) Pp. xxiv + 423, ills, maps, pls. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2017. Cased, £55, US$80. ISBN: 978-1-931534-91-8. Oliver Dickinson The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 531 – 534 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1800149X Published Online on 28 June 2018
LATE MINOAN SETTLEMENTS IN CRETE – (E.) Hallager, (B.P.) Hallager (edd.) The Greek–Swedish Excavations at Agia Aikaterini Square Kastelli, Khania 1970–1987, 2001, 2005 and 2008. Volume V: the Late Minoan IIIA:1 and II Settlements. Vol. V:1: Text, Vol. V:2: Plates. (Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen 4°, 47:5:1–2.) Pp. 496 + 218, figs, b/w & colour ills, pls. Stockholm: Svenska Institutet i Athen, 2016. Cased, SEK200. ISBN: 978-91-7916-064-7. Anna Lucia D'Agata The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 535 – 537 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000665 Published Online on 21 May 2018
POTTERY FROM TROY – (P.A.) Mountjoy Troy VI Middle, VI Late and VII. The Mycenaean Pottery. (Studia Troica, Monographien 9.) Pp. 464, ills, maps. Bonn: Dr Rudolf Habelt, 2017. Paper, €95. ISBN: 978-3-7749-4067-3. Judit Haas-Lebegyev The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 538 – 539 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001592 Published Online on 29 June 2018
THE AEGINETAN SCULPTURES REDISCOVERED – (J.M.) Wagner, (F.W.J.) Schelling Report on the Aeginetan Sculptures. With Historical Supplements. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. Pp. xxvi + 318, ills. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2017. Cased, US$99. ISBN: 978-1-4384-6481-7. Ágnes Bencze The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 540 – 542 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001166 Published Online on 28 June 2018
THE HISTORY OF PHILIPPI – (J.) Fournier (ed.) Philippes, de la Préhistoire à Byzance. Études d'archéologie et d'histoire. (BCH Supplément 55.) Pp. 297, b/w & colour ills, b/w & colour maps. Athens: École Française d'Athènes, 2016. Paper, €60. ISBN: 978-2-86958-280-4. Peter Delev The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 543 – 545 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001439 Published Online on 28 June 2018
TOMBS AND BURIALS AT CORINTH – (K.W.) Slane Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth's Northern Cemetery. (Corinth. Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 21.) Pp. xxx + 270, ills, maps, b/w & colour pls. Princeton, NJ: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2017. Cased, US$150. ISBN: 978-0-87661-022-0. Chrysanthi Gallou The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 546 – 548 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000999 Published Online on 18 June 2018
KAS AND HEMUSUT IN GRECO-ROMAN EGYPT – (B.) Ventker Garanten der Herrschaft. Die Prozessionen der Kas und Hemusut in den Tempeln der griechisch-römischen Zeit. Soubassementstudien VI. (Studien zur Spätägyptischen Religion 18.) Pp. x + 380, ills, pls. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2018. Cased, €98. ISBN: 978-3-447-10883-6. Stefan Bojowald The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 548 – 550 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001609 Published Online on 28 June 2018
GRAFFITI FROM SMYRNA – (R.S.) Bagnall, (R.) Casagrande-Kim, (A.) Ersoy, (C.) Tanriver (edd.) Graffiti from the Basilica in the Agora of Smyrna. With a contribution by Burak Yolaçan. Pp. xii + 488, figs, b/w & colour ills, b/w & colour maps. New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World/New York University Press, 2016. Cased, US$85. ISBN: 978-1-479864-64-5. Marijana Ricl The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 550 – 551 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000586 Published Online on 7 May 2018
A PUNIC-ROMAN SANCTUARY ON MALTA – (G.) Azzopardi Ras il-Wardija Sanctuary Revisited. A Re-assessment of the Evidence and Newly-Informed Interpretations of a Punic-Roman Sanctuary in Gozo (Malta). Pp. x + 82, ills, maps. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2017. Paper, £19. ISBN: 978-1-78491-669-5. Eve MacDonald The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 552 – 553 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000525 Published Online on 23 April 2018
NEW DISCOVERIES ON KALE AKTE – (F.) Collura (ed.) Studia Calactina I. Ricerche su una città greco-romana di Sicilia: Kalè Akté – Calacte. Con contributi di Sergio Cascella, Emiliano Arena e Benedetto Carroccio. (BAR International Series 2813.) Pp. viii + 460, ills, colour pls. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2016. Paper, £69. ISBN: 978-1-4073-1480-8. Antonino Crisa The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 553 – 555 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000896 Published Online on 18 June 2018
AN OVERVIEW OF MOSAICS IN ROMAN GAUL – (C.) Balmelle, (J.-P.) Darmon La mosaïque dans les Gaules romaines. Pp. 359, b/w & colour ills, colour maps. Paris: Éditions Picard, 2017. Cased, €59. ISBN: 978-2-7084-1031-2. Crispin Corrado The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 556 – 558 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001452 Published Online on 29 June 2018
A NEW GREEK–ENGLISH DICTIONARY – (F.) Montanari The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek. Edited by Goh Madeleine and Schroeder Chad. Advisory editors Nagy Gregory and Muellner Leonard. Pp. lx + 2431. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015 (originally published as Vocabolario della lingua greca, 1995). Cased, €99, US$125. ISBN: 978-90-04-19318-5. Chiara Meccariello The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 559 – 561 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000562 Published Online on 16 May 2018
TEXTS AND APPLICABILITY – (M.) Formisano, (P.) van der Eijk (edd.) Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing. Pp. xiv + 282, figs, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-16943-2. Johannes Wietzke The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 562 – 565 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000288 Published Online on 2 April 2018
FEATURES OF TECHNICAL EKPHRASIS – (C.) Roby Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Literature. The Written Machine between Alexandria and Rome. Pp. x + 336, figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £74.99, US$120. ISBN: 978-1-107-07730-0. Ruth Webb The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 565 – 567 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001282 Published Online on 3 July 2018
EMPIRE OF THE SENSES – SENSES OF THE EMPIRE – (E.) Betts (ed.) Senses of the Empire. Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture. Pp. xvi + 227, ills, colour pls. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Cased, £110. ISBN: 987-1-4724-4629-9. Jerry Toner The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 567 – 569 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000355 Published Online on 7 May 2018
COLLECTORS AND FORGERY – (C.) Higbie Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World. Object Lessons. Pp. xx + 276, ills, colour pls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £65, US$105. ISBN: 978-0-19-875930-0. Javier Martínez The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 569 – 571 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000240 Published Online on 4 April 2018
FEMALE CLASSICS – (R.) Wyles, (E.) Hall (edd.) Women Classical Scholars. Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly. Pp. xviii + 465, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £80, US$125. ISBN: 978-0-19-872520-6. Catherine Connors The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 571 – 574 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000458 Published Online on 23 April 2018
FEMALE TRANSLATORS OF GREEK DRAMA – (Y.) Prins Ladies’ Greek. Victorian Translations of Tragedy. Pp. xx + 297, ills. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. Paper, £24.95, US$29.95 (Cased, £62.95, US$75). ISBN: 978-0-691-14189-3 (978-0-691-14188-6 hbk). David Bullen The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 574 – 576 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000550 Published Online on 7 May 2018
OVID IN MEDIEVAL WALES – (P.) Russell Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales. Pp. xx + 291, figs, ills. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2017. Cased, US$159.95. ISBN: 978-0-8142-1322-3. Helen Fulton The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 576 – 578 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000264 Published Online on 15 April 2018
APPROPRIATING OVID'S LIFE IN FRANCE – (H.) Taylor The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture. Pp. xii + 195, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £60, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-879677-0. Richard Maber The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 578 – 580 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001300 Published Online on 28 June 2018
PIETRO BEMBO AND ETNA – (G.D.) Williams Pietro Bembo on Etna. The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist. Pp. xvi + 419, colour pls. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £41.99, US$65. ISBN: 978-0-19-027229-6. Dawn L. Hollis The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 580 – 583 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000732 Published Online on 18 June 2018
THE RECEPTION OF CAESAR IN DRAMA – (M.) Dimitrova Julius Caesar's Self-Created Image and its Dramatic Afterlife. Pp. x + 236. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Cased, £85, US$114. ISBN: 978-1-4742-4575-3. Hester Schadee The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 583 – 585 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001579 Published Online on 29 June 2018
ROME AND ITS FLAWS IN RECEPTION – (B.) Dufallo (ed.) Roman Error. Classical Reception and the Problem of Rome's Flaws. Pp. xii + 284, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £65, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-880303-4. Chiara Lombardi The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 585 – 587 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001257 Published Online on 20 July 2018
ARCHITECTURAL RECEPTION – (K.T.) Von Stackelberg, (E.) Macaulay-Lewis (edd.) Housing the New Romans. Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World. Pp. xx + 327, ills, maps, colour pls. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £47.99, US$74. ISBN: 978-0-19-027233-3. Mikolaj Getka-Kenig The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 587 – 590 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000690 Published Online on 4 June 2018
THE ROLE OF ROBERT GRAVES – (A.G.G.) Gibson (ed.) Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition. Pp. x + 370. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Cased, £87, US$125. ISBN: 978-0-19-873805-3. Martin Michalek The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 590 – 592 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000197 Published Online on 15 April 2018
CLASSICAL NARRATIVES AND FILM – (M.M.) Winkler Classical Literature on Screen. Affinities of Imagination. Pp. xiv + 410, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £90, US$120. ISBN: 978-1-107-19128-0. Paula James The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 592 – 594 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1800080X Published Online on 4 June 2018
DYLAN AND THE CLASSICS – (R.F.) Thomas Why Dylan Matters. Pp. x + 358, ill. London: William Collins, 2017. Cased, £12.99. ISBN: 978-0-00-824549-8. Matthew Augustine The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 595 – 597 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1800121X Published Online on 29 June 2018
Notices
(A.) Kenny The Aristotelian Ethics. A Study of the Relationship between the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle. Second edition. Pp. xvi + 321, figs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2016 (first edition 1978). Paper, £25, US$40 (Cased, £60, US$99). ISBN: 978-0-19-879094-5 (978-0-19-879093-8 hbk).
Karen Margrethe Nielsen The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 599 – 600 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001373 Published Online on 18 July 2018
(S.M.) Adema Speech and Thought in Latin War Narratives. Words of Warriors. (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology 24.) Pp. x + 416. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Cased, €132, US$152. ISBN: 978-90-04-34162-3. John Matthew Oksanish The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 600 – 601 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001397 Published Online on 28 June 2018
(S.J.) Heyworth, †(J.H.W.) Morwood A Commentary on Vergil Aeneid 3. Pp. xii + 327, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Paper, £22.95, US$50 (Cased, £80, US$120). ISBN: 978-0-19-872782-8 (978-0-19-872781-1 hbk). Elena Giusti The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 601 – 602 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000768 Published Online on 31 May 2018
(K.) Maclennan (ed.) Virgil: Aeneid Book VIII. Pp. vi + 284, maps. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Paper, £17.99, US$24.95. ISBN: 978-1-4725-2787-5. Caroline Spearing The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 603 – 603 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1800077X Published Online on 31 May 2018
(L.) Krisak (trans.) Ovid's Erotic Poems. Amores and Ars Amatoria. Introduction by Sarah Ruden. Pp. vi + 225. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Cased, £26.99, US$32.50. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4625-4. Fiona Cox The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 604 – 604 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000495 Published Online on 21 May 2018
(M.) Johnson Ovid on Cosmetics. Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts. Pp. xiv + 171, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Paper, £17.99 (Cased, £55). ISBN: 978-1-4725-0657-3 (978-1-4725-1442-4 hbk). Valentina DeNardis The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 605 – 605 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001403 Published Online on 13 September 2018
(I.) D'Auria (ed., trans.) Claudio Mario Vittorio: Alethia. Precatio e primo libro. Introduzione, testo latino, traduzione e commento. (Saggi 13.) Pp. 382. Naples: Clio Press, 2014. Paper, €30. ISBN: 978-88-88904-18-4. Elena Castelnuovo The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 606 – 606 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000975 Published Online on 4 June 2018
(V.) Azoulay The Tyrant-Slayers of Ancient Athens. A Tale of Two Statues. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Pp. xxii + 276, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017 (originally published as Les Tyrannicides d'Athènes. Vie et mort de deux statues, 2014). Cased, £22.99, US$35. ISBN: 978-0-19-066356-8. Matt Simonton The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 607 – 608 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000987 Published Online on 18 June 2018
(P.) Ismard Democracy's Slaves. A Political History of Ancient Greece. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. Pp. xii + 188. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2017 (originally published as La Démocratie contre les experts. Les esclaves publics en Grèce ancienne, 2015). Cased, £25.95, €31.50, US$35. ISBN: 978-0-674-66007-6. William Mack The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 608 – 609 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000392 Published Online on 9 May 2018
(C.) Habicht Divine Honors for Mortal Men in Greek Cities. The Early Cases. Translated by John Noël Dillon. Pp. xvi + 238. Ann Arbor: Michigan Classical Press, 2017 (originally published as Gottmenschentum und griechische Städte, 1956/1970). Cased, £55. ISBN: 978-0-9799713-9-6. Paul Keen The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 609 – 610 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000483 Published Online on 7 May 2018
(K.M.) Heineman The Decadence of Delphi. The Oracle in the Second Century ad and Beyond. Pp. x + 212. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Cased, £105, US$140. ISBN: 978-1-4724-8180-1. Hugh Bowden The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 610 – 611 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000471 Published Online on 7 May 2018
(W.) Günther Inschriften von Milet. Teil 4: Eine Prosopographie. (Milet 6.4.) Pp. xviii + 676. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. Cased, £122.99, €149.95, US$172.99. ISBN: 978-3-11-045484-0. Peter Thonemann The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 611 – 612 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000343 Published Online on 27 March 2018
(G.R.) Ruffini A Prosopography of Byzantine Aphrodito. (American Studies in Papyrology 50.) Pp. xiv + 634. Durham, NC: The American Society of Papyrologists, 2011. Cased, £59. ISBN: 978-0-9799758-2-0. Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 612 – 613 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001610 Published Online on 13 September 2018
(J.) Hanink The Classical Debt. Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity. Pp. xiv + 337, ills. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2017. Cased, £23.95, €27, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-97154-7. James Renshaw The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 613 – 614 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001385 Published Online on 28 June 2018
Books received
Books Received The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 2, October 2018, pp 615 – 627 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18001981 Published Online on 13 September 2018